First Name - Carmen (1983)
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88% of critics liked it
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57% of users liked it
(2,485 ratings)
First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. The… More First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. The film is a meditation on the difficulties of youth in the 1980s, the relations between cinema and capital, and how to film the human body. Godard fills the film with carefully composed shots of bodies playing music, making love, and acting violently. His attention to bodies in First Name: Carmen makes the film's images very close to sculptures, particularly those of Rodin. The film's engagement with painting and sculpture continues Godard's ongoing investigation of the relationships between cinema and other arts ~ Louis Schwartz, Rovi
- Directed By
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Written By
- Anne-Marie Miéville
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1983 Wide
Critic Reviews
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, Time Out
This, throwaway jokes and all, is Godard back at his most nouvelle vague in years.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
He is searching for a point of equilibrium between the made and the found, the ordered and the chaotic -- a point from which to define an aesthetic for the 80s.
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Felix Gonzalez Jr., DVD Review
With equal parts heist drama and romantic comedy, the movie continues Godard's exploration of film ....
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Douglas Pratt, DVDLaser
By accepting his indulgences, the viewer is treated both to his wry sense of humor and his refreshing intelligence.
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, Film4
This is Godard at his most mischievous.
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Cast
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Maruschka Detmers
as Carmen X
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Jacques Bonnaffé
as Joseph Bonnaffe
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Myriem Roussel
as Claire
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Christophe Odent
as The Boss
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Jean-Luc Godard
as Uncle Jean
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Hippolyte Girardot
as Fred
- Christine Pignet
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Jacques Villeret
as Man eating yogurt
- Pierre-Alain Chapuis
